Designing peace : building a better future now

Book

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Name/Title

Designing peace : building a better future now

Entry/Object ID

NK1520.D48 2022

Description

Designing peace asks, how might we collectively put our creative forces together to envision a future we want to live in and take action to create it now? This book is an intersectional snapshot of the actions-culturally diverse and wide-ranging in scale-that are currently in play around the world. Offering perspectives on peace through essays, interviews, critical maps, project profiles, data visualizations, and art, this book conveys the momentum that design can gain in effecting a peace-filled future. From activists, scholars, and architects to policymakers, graphic, game, and landscape designers, Designing Peace flips the conversation: peace is not simply a passive state signifying the absence of war, it is a dynamic concept that requires effort, expertise, and multi-dimensional solutions to address its complexity. Designers engage with individuals, communities, and organizations to create a more sustainable peace-from creative confrontations that challenge existing structures, to designs that demand embracing justice and truth in a search for reconciliation. This publication aims to expand the discourse on what is possible if society were to design for peace.

Context

This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Designing Peace at Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, June 10, 2022-September 4, 2023.

Lexicon

Search Terms

design--human factors, design--social aspects, peace

Legacy Lexicon

Category

Exhibition catalog

Book Details

Author

Cynthia E. Smith

Publisher

Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (New York), Smithsonian Institution

Place Published

City

New York, NY

Date Published

2022

ISBN

9781942303329

LCCN

2022931646

Notes

Length: 224

General Notes

Note Type

Contents

Note

Musings on peace / John Paul Lederach -- Foreword / Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar -- Preface / Darren Walker -- Designing the future now / Cynthia E. Smith -- How can design support humane forms of peace and security? An architecture of peace / Michael Murphy -- Social emergency response centers -- Imaging the just city / Toni L. Griffin -- The adventures of Daly graphic novels -- In transit studio / Håvard Breivik-Khan and Tone Selmer-Olsen -- Startblok Elzenhagen -- Oceanix City -- Christmas operations -- Body mapping -- Island tracker -- Borders and boundaries / Beth Simmons, Michael Kenwick, Dillon Horwitz -- Teeter-totter wall -- Papers, please -- The business of peace / Jason Miklian and Kristian Hoelscher -- How can design address the root causes of conflict? New world summits / Jonas Staal -- New world summit - Rojava -- CONIFA -- A new climate change council / Michael Adlerstein -- Regreening Africa -- Astropolitics: Depletion of terrestrial resources and the cosmic future of capitalism -- Rare earthenware -- Hate speech lexicons -- Stalled! -- Peace pavilion -- House of peace -- Universal declaration of human rights posters -- Positive peace index -- How can design engage creative confrontation? Beautiful trouble toolbox / Nadine Bloch and Andrew Boyd -- Black Lives Matter Harlem street mural -- Art the arms fair -- Objects, people, and peace / Caroline O'Connell -- Maps (bullet rug series) -- Universality through visual symbols / Lee Davis -- World peace symbol -- Extinction symbol -- How can design embrace truth and dignity in a search for peace and justice? Citizen-state, a bottom-up reparation model / Everisto Benyera -- My ancestors' garden -- The murder o Halit Yozgat -- Paper monuments -- Women, war, and peace / Binalakshmi Nepram interview with Cynthia E. Smith -- "To whom does the earth belong?" / Pablo Ares and Julia Risler -- The chronic -- Conflict kitchen -- Designing the kitchen / Merve Bedir -- How can design facilitate the transition from instability to peace? Designing for dignity -- HarassMap -- Designing for urban inclusivity / Chelina Odbert -- BLUE: The architecture of UN peace missions -- Recoding post-war Syria -- Stone garden -- Korea remade -- Jordan River Peace Park -- RefAid -- Casa Azul -- Ideas box -- Safe passage bags workshop.